FICTION AND FACT

Fiction is SO MUCH MORE FUN than fact.

In fiction, the hero gets to drive like a madman to save the day. In fact, people who drive like that get arrested.

In TV fiction, the bad guy is usually caught within a hour. In reality, the bad guy is sometimes never caught.

In fiction, there is almost always a happy ending. In life, there is no ending, just a journey with an ending for each one of us, but not for all of us.

This is why some people would rather believe in fiction than in fact. Life is so much easier if you can believe that you should not have to pay taxes. Life is so much easier if you believe you will never get sick.

Besides, to understand facts, you often have to be able to understand math. No one but nerds likes math.

The problem with believing in fiction is that fictional solutions can not solve real world problems. All real world problems are fairly complex, and not easy to solve. Problems are only easy to solve in fiction.

BEWARE of those who tell you that a problem is easy to solve. Generally, those people have a solution that sounds good, but will only benefit the people proposing the easy solution.

Generally, if an idea is based on a fiction book, it is not an idea that can work in the real world.

I LOVE FICTION. I really want to be the hero of a John Grisham novel. However, my clients expect me to solve THEIR PROBLEMS, not a fun, fictional problem. So I play a fictional character at SciFi conventions and at Renaissance Faires. Halloween is also a good time to be a fictional character.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE ALL HAVE TO FACE REALITY.

We can solve our problems. But FIRST, we have to recognize that all problems are complex, that there are no easy solutions.